I thought many of you would be interested in the Time Guru metronome app I developed for the iPhone - a unique practice tool for developing one's internal sense of meter and groove. Time Guru is the only metronome with the ability to mute its sound at random, in sequenced patterns, or both, periodically leaving a musician on his/her own to develop an internal sense of time. It's like training wheels that sometimes come up off the ground.

Developed by Avi Bortnick from the John Scofield Band, Time Guru also features:
â€¢ the ability to play a variety time signatures or sequences of time signatures
â€¢ rhythmic clave type patterns
â€¢ saving presets for tempo, meter, sound and muting;
â€¢ 18 loud sound sets
â€¢ human or robot voice counting
â€¢ tap tempo (5 to 300 BPM range) - all with super accurate, rock-solid timing via a customized audio engine.
â€¢ $2.99 at the iTunes app store, and a FREE "lite" version is also available with random muting, but more limited features.
â€¢ Android version coming soon

Guitar Player Magazine says: "This ingenious super metronome was developed by funky-as-hell Sco sideman Avi Bortnick. It will leave out beats randomly to force you to strengthen your own inner time-keeping muscles, and it has other cool features for odd meters, drum machine-style patterns, and more. For the low price of $2.99, this is an awesome learning, grooving, solidifying tool."